The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-10-21
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Assnara % The morning ef lbs
Issh sis
Fiv3 ears and l36 bales 81 eotien
were DESTROYED by tre III lsastoh 0ne
day last week
Two men, few DAYS ago, caught
with hnsks and lines 520 pounds of
trout uenr Morgan City, which they
sold raadilv 1t cents per pound.
Greins sun Weare glad 70 learn
tisat parties from Toxas have biished
4 large pasture IN the rear Of the new
Southern oil mill, and Wit winter be-
tHeeh 500 and 500 head Of stock there,
Tbe report Of tho Louisiana Depart
meat Of Agriculture, Thompson J.
Bird Commissioner, tor the month Of
September, has been received. There
is falling of IN eotton Of about II
per cent, III rice Of Is per cent, com
pafedwith last year, cane is above the
average, and the corn crop the largest
ever raised ID The stste.
* negro was drowning his wife be-
cause she wonld not live with him, a
few days ago near Port Vincent, Liv-
ingston parish. While she was drown
ing her brother appeared upon the
scene and fred twenty bnckshot into
the murderer, when he sank, with his
victim b his arms, to the bottom of
the Amite river. Both man and
woman we're drowned.
A Handsome public school building
Is one of the prospects for Shreveport.
This will be good advertisement for
Our city. Democrat The trouble
with about fifty Of ourLouisisna towns
is that the Hhsndsoue public school
Building" is in prospect. If they
would only build il, and fasten itdown
10 the ground by solid foundation,
it would better advertise ibem.---N.
o. Chronicle
Bossier Banner Hercules said to
tie WAGNER, "Pnt your shoulder to
the wheel" Capital seeking invest
ment saye to Louisianians, "Show
your faith in your material advantages
before calling for help" 0fwhat use
are there in natural advantages if we
do not utilize them, and do not bring
them to the attention of others? Let
uB push our natural advantages to the
front and develop the boundless re-
sources of the State.
jackson Times: Last Tuesday,
while Mrs, D. T. Ponder was visiting
Mrs John G. Jones, her little 9.year-
old child was playing abont the yard
and fell, feet first, into a bored well 43
feet deep, which the auger bad just
been taken from, and was 6shed for
with potbooks, which fastened into bis
clothes and be was rescued unhurt,
but in a good crying condition. We
congratulate the parents on the rescue
Of their little one, unhsrmed.
DR.. ]. Fl. Bowman, Major Geo. c.
Naddili, Mr.. Geo. A. WsddilI and
other prominent laud-holders of this
State, have formed a corporation
known as Waverly Land Company,
wilhaan authorized capital stock Of
100000, domiciled at TalIulah, Madi-
son parish. The object of the eorpor-
atlon is to improve lands by clearing,
draining and leVeeing and also to en-
gage in various manufactures, 10 build
aad maintain railways, telegraph and
telephone lines aud 10 improve and
navigate waterways.
Mr.. A. Cufrie has sold to Messrs.
b. S.Johnson, V. Groeiean and Charles
Schaeffer one half interest in the
Shreveport Times newspaper aud Job
office for the sum Of $500, and TO
Mr.. w. Fl. Ogden one-fourth interest
for $3.50, retaining one-fourth in
teFest for himself. Messrs. johnson,
Grosjean and Schaaer have leased the
ono-half interest held by Currie and
Ogden and will run the concern for
their own account. The Times will
continue to support the Democratic
candidate for Governor, S. D. MeEnery
Bossier Banner A very serious
accident, with fatal results, occurred
last Friday morning on the shed road
about one mile thls side of DR.. II. T
Billiards place, which resulted in the
death of Mr. Cefnl Cook, of Webster
parish. MraCook WAS driving an o.
wagon over the shed road, when the
wagon ran against a post, knocking
down q part Of the shed, which struck
Mr. Cook and felled him to the ground
where he remained until extrieated by
friends. He was placed in wager
and was being conveyed to this place
for medical treatment, but when with
inslx miles of town be died suddenly
New Orleans Daily Meas: Gen
Muldrow, Acting Secretary of the In,
terror, yesterday forwarded to the
Office Of Attorney General Garland,
the papers IN the case Of E. Bozor,
Thomas Beech and Page & Ponder,
Of Eilisyille, Miss, for trespass upon
government land The two first-nam.
ed have been indicted for boxing pine
trees and disposing Of the product to
the last named firm. The papers In the
case Of George Q. Mills, Berry Parker
and John Miller, have also been sent
to the Attorney General. To al Of
the above cases il is claimed that the
firm Of Messrs. Simpson q Wizard, Of
this city, were the purchasers Of The
prodact Of the trespass, and orders
have been issued to District Attorney
9sflange to enter civil proceedings
against the firm for the recovery Of
The money realized from the sale.
Shreveport Journal Friday about
noen asix-mule wagon laden with ten
paiss q eotton, while passing along
tAe riseF bank opposite she Hollings
3ofth place about six miles above
lgAns Qp the BessieF side, was and
qqAf tRfpwn into Tie river hy lie
q she figeg bank. The 81
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